Kolchak: The Night Stalker—An Appreciation
By Dr. John L. Flynn
Inspired by two highly-successful television movies, Kolchak: The Night Stalker told the story of an investigative reporter for the Independent News Service named Carl
Kolchak and his efforts each week to destroy some new evil monster. Vampires, Native
American spirits, werewolves, vengeful Greek goddesses, robots, reptiles and even space aliens formed the basis for most of the weekly fun. Co-produced by and starring Darren
McGavin, the series was certainly a cut above most of the current television offerings of the day with episodes that varied in quality. The character of Carl Kolchak was a loveable but irascible hack who spent more time arguing with his boss Tony Vincenzo
(Simon Oakland) than writing, but when he finally did get around to journalism, the stories were appropriately lurid and positively bizarre. Regrettably, ABC's new programming executive Fred Silverman was concerned with the excessive violence and kept interfering, ordering scripts that were lighter, less horrifying. That, in essence, took the "bite" out of the series and spelled eventual cancellation. Before its demise in 1975, the series did produce a handful of quality episodes, and a cult following. Years later,
Chris Carter was inspired to make The X-files.
Before Kolchak: The Night Stalker started its brief but cult-spawning single- season run, the character of Carl Kolchak appeared in a pair of made-for-television movies. The Night Stalker, based on an unpublished novel by Jeff Rice and a teleplay by the legendary Twilight Zone scribe Richard Matheson, told about a vampire loose in the seedy nightlife of Las Vegas and the efforts of a reporter to stop him. Dan Curtis, the legendary producer who had created Dark Shadows, produced, and John Llewellyn
Moxey directed the piece. Starring veteran Hollywood actor-producer Darren McGavin, the first movie premiered on January 11, 1972, and was the most highly rated TV movie of its time. The huge success prompted ABC to produce a sequel telefilm one year later.
The Night Strangler, which was also written by Matheson, featured an immortal who preyed upon victims in Seattle and the reporter who discovers the secret of the criminal’s immortality. McGavin and his Night Stalker co-star Simon Oakland reprised their roles, and producer Dan Curtis took over as director. The Night Strangler debuted to very strong ratings numbers on January 16, 1973, and paved the way for the creation of the weekly series.
"This guy, I've got him in my mind, see, he's fired from the New York Journal in
1955," said Darren McGavin, when asked to describe the evolution of Carl Kolchak.
"That day, the day he was fired, he was wearing a seersucker suit, a black string tie and a white shirt with a button-down collar. So, he's still wearing 'em. He hasn't bought a suit of clothes since he was fired. ... The truth of the matter is, I love Kolchak. He's terrific. What he's saying to the world is beautiful: 'The heck with you, brother, I'll get my story anyway.' He's a man in a million."
Ironically, had Kolchak: The Night Stalker survived cancellation, the series might have lived for years, first on network television, then syndication. The series might have even seen new life, in much the same way that Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica have been revived. Today, network and cable television shows have grown bolder and gorier in what passes for entertainment. The Sopranos, which was created by David Chase, a former staff writer on Kolchak: The Night Stalker, has a gritty realism that far surpasses anything that Kolchak investigated. Even Chris Carter’s The X-files pushed the envelope each week in what was acceptable for television viewers. Carter has often acknowledged the influence of Kolchak on The X-Files, and paid homage to that legacy by casting
Darren McGavin in a two-time guest role as retired FBI Special Agent Arthur Dales — the first agent assigned to what later became the bureau's X-Files office.
Episode Guide to Kolchak: The Night Stalker:
1-THE RIPPER
Written by Rudolph Borchert
Directed by Allen Baron
A serial killer who preys on women haunts first Milwaukee, then Chicago. Attempts to capture him meet with failure as the killer displays superhuman strength and invulnerability to bullets. Kolchak comes to believe that the killer is in fact the original
Jack the Ripper. He lures him out to pond, which he has rigged with electricity, and kills the Ripper, reducing him to ashes. Guest Cast: Mickey Gilbert (The Ripper), Beatrice Colen (Jane Plumm), Ken Lynch
(Capt. R.M. Warren), Roberta Collins (Police Detective Susan Catazzo), Denise Dillaway
(Debbie Fielder), Ike Jones (Mail boy), Dulcie Jordan (Driver's wife), Don Mantooth
(Second policeman), Ruth McDevitt (Elderly Peeping-Tom), Cathey Paine (Ellen), Mews
Small (Masseuse), Clint Young (Driver)
2-THE ZOMBIE
Story by Zekial Marko
Teleplay by David Chase
Directed by Alexander Grasshoff
The corpse of a small-time crook, Francois Edmonds, keeps showing up at the scene of bizarre murders of underworld figures, whose spines have been snapped by a killer with superhuman strength. Kolchak discovers that voodoo is what makes the Zombie so powerful, and lures the monster out to a cemetery of dead cars to kill him. Fans of the
Sopranos will recognize some of the figures in David Chase’s teleplay.
Guest Cast: O. William Faison (The Zombie/Francois Edmunds), Charles Aidman
(Captain Leo Winwood), Val Bisoglio (Victor Friese), Scatman Crothers (Uncle
Filemon), Antonio Fargas (Sweetstick Weldon), J. Pat O'Malley (Cemetery caretaker),
Joseph Sirola (Benjamin Sposato), Gary Baxley (Willie Pike), Hank Calia (Albert Berg),
Ben Frommer (The monk), Bob Harris (Poppy), Paulene Myers (Mamalois "Marie
Juliette" Edmonds), Chuck Waters (Jerry)
3-THEY HAVE BEEN, THEY ARE, THEY WILL BE... (a.k.a. U.F.O.)
Story by Dennis Clark
Teleplay by Rudolph Borchert Directed by Allen Baron
A bizarre invisible alien presence sweeps through Chicago. Kolchak tracks the alien entity from an electronics warehouse to an observatory to Lincoln Park, and narrowly manages to drive it off before it kills again.
Guest Cast: James Gregory (Captain Quill), Dick Van Patten (Alfred Bindle), Mary
Wickes (Dr. Bess Winestock), Fritz Feld (Waiter), Maureen Arthur (Woman speaker),
Rudy Challenger (Stanley Wedemeyer), Phil Leeds (Howard Gough), Len Lesser
(Crowley), Dennis McCarthy (Security guard Riley)
4-THE VAMPIRE
Written by Bill Stratton, David Chase, Rudolph Borchert
Directed by Don Weis
Catherine Rawlins, a call girl who was a victim of Janos Skorzeny (the vampire from the original Night Stalker TV movie) rises outside Las Vegas and makes her way to Los
Angeles, where she begins her own killing spree. Kolchak reads about the murders on the wire, and convinces Vincenzo to send him out to L.A. to get an exclusive interview with a guru. Kolchak then enlists the aide of a realtor, and together they track Rawlins down to her lair.
Guest Cast: William Daniels (Lt. Jack Matteo), Suzanne Charney (Catherine
Rawlins/Vampire), Kathleen Nolan (Faye Kruger), Larry Storch (Jim "The Swede"
Brytowski), Jan Murray (Ichabod Grace), Tony Epper (Andrew Garth), Noel De Souza
(Chandra), Milt Kamen (Gingrich), John Doucette (Deputy Sample), Stuart Nisbet (Hotel manager), Army Archerd (Man), Selma Archerd (Woman), Jimmy Joyce (Man talking),
Scott Douglas (Second reporter), Alyscia Maxwell (third Reporter), Anne Whitfield (Girl)
5- THE WEREWOLF
Written by David Chase, Paul Playdon
Directed by Allen Baron
Kolchak wrangles an all-expenses-paid trip to report the last cruise of a luxury ocean liner, only to find that a bloodthirsty werewolf is among the passengers on board. Eric
Braeden, the former Dr. Forbin, plays the werewolf.
Guest Cast: Eric Braeden (Bernhardt Stieglitz), Dick Gautier (Mel Tarter), Nita Talbot
(Paula Griffin), Henry Jones (Captain Julian Wells), Bob Hastings (Hallem), Ray Ballard
(Bernie Efron), Barry Cahill (Dr. Alan Ross), Lewis Charles (George Levitt), Dort Clark
(Gribs), Lyn Guild (Lois Prysock), Jackie Russell (Wendy), Jim Hawkins (Father James
Remy), Heath Jobes (Radio Man), Steve Marlow (Sailor)
6-FIRE FALL
Written by Bill S. Ballinger
Directed by Don Weis
A series of mysterious deaths plague the life of orchestra conductor Ryder Bond. Each victim is incinerated by supernaturally hot flames. Kolchak tracks the criminal down to a doppelganger, and helps reunite it with its restless spirit.
Guest Cast: Fred Beir (Ryder Bond), David Doyle (Cardinale), Madlyn Rhue (Marie),
Philip Carey (Sgt. Mayer), Lenore Kasdorf (Doctor), Alice Backes (Dr. Shropell),
Patricia Estrin (Felicia Porter), Joshua Shelley (George Mason), Marcus Smith (Young
Man), Carol Veazie (Mrs. Sherman), Virginia Vincent (Mrs. Markoff)
7-THE DEVIL'S PLATFORM Story by Tim Maschler
Teleplay by David Chase, Donn Mullally, Rudolph Borchert, Larry Markes, Norm
Liebmann
Directed by Allen Baron
Mysterious deaths follow the campaign trail of Senator Robert Palmer — as does a mysterious black dog with a pentagram for a dog tag. Long before The Omen, this series entry linked politics and the Devil. Naturally, Kolchak discovers the link, and brings an immediate end to Palmer’s political career.
Guest Cast: Tom Skerritt (Sen. Robert W. Palmer), Ellen Weston (Lorraine Palmer),
Stanley Adams (Louis the Bartender), Jeanne Cooper (Dr. Kline), Julie Gregg (Susan
Driscoll), John Myhers (Senator James Talbot), William Mims (Officer Hale), Ike Jones
(First maintenance engineer), John Dennis (Second maintenance engineer), Robert
DoQui (Park policeman), Bruce Powers (First policeman), Ross Sherman (Second policeman), Keith Walker (TV reporter), Sam Edwards (Mailman)
8-BAD MEDICINE
Written by L. Ford Neale, John Huff
Directed by Alex Grasshoff
A series of suicides among high-society matrons follows a bizarre jewel-theft by a towering Indian, who mysteriously disappears when cornered. Kolchak learns that the
Indian is a "diablero," the ghost of a cliff-dwelling Indian medicine man who was condemned to walk the Earth eternally gathering a horde of jewels. The diablero can change shape into a coyote or crow and hypnotize anyone with its eyes.
Guest Cast: Richard Kiel (The Diablero), Alice Ghostley (Dr. Agnes Temple), Victor Jory (Charles Rolling Thunder), Ramon Bieri (Captain Joe Baker), Marvin Kaplan
(Albert Delgado), James Griffith (Schwartz), Lois January (Rhonda June Marsky), Riza
Royce (Charlotte Elaine Van Piet), Barbara Morrison (Luci Lapont Addison), Ernie
Robinson (Chauffeur), Bob Golden (Police detective), Dennis McCarthy (Ballistics man),
Troy Melton (Desk officer), Morris Buchanan (Night watchman), Dick Geary (Auction guard), David Lewis (Auctioneer), Arthur Wong (Auction attendee), Keith Walker (First reporter), Bill Deiz (Second reporter)
9-THE SPANISH MOSS MURDERS
Story by Alvin L. Friedman
Teleplay by David Chase, Alvin L. Friedman
Directed by Gordon Hessler
Several people are killed in bizarre accidents that all have two things in common: each victim was crushed to death, and all of them were found covered in wet, slimy Spanish
Moss.
Kolchak discovers that each victim was related to Paul Langois, a hot-tempered Cajun.
Langois, however, has an iron-clad alibi: As the subject of a sleep experiment, he's been asleep for the past several weeks. Carl realizes that Langois, in his deep-sleep state, has conjured Peremalfait, a "boogey man" from the Cajun bayou: a huge creature covered in
Spanish Moss that crushes the life right out of you.
Guest Cast: Virginia Gregg (Dr. Hollenbeck), Richard Kiel (Peremalfait), Keenan Wynn
(Captain Joe "Mad Dog" Siska), Severn Darden (Dr. Aaron Pollack), Ned Glass (Joe the apartment manager), Donald Mantooth (Paul Langois), Roberta Dean (Michelle Kelly),
Maurice Marsac (Henri Villon), Johnny Silver (Pepe LaRue a.k.a. Morris Shapiro), Rudy Diaz (Sergeant Villaverde), James LaSane (Officer Johnson), Randy Boone (Jean the fiddler), Brian Avery (Record producer), Elisabeth Brooks (Lab assistant), Bill Deiz
(First reporter)
10-THE ENERGY EATER
Story by Arthur Rowe
Teleplay by Arthur Rowe, Rudolph Borchert, Robert Earl
Directed by Alexander Grasshoff
Several hospital employees are mysteriously electrocuted immediately following the building's grand opening. Kolchak interviews Native American iron workers, who tell him that the construction of the new hospital roused a great Bear Spirit that kills with electrical shocks. Kolchak convinces the hospital administrators to help him refrigerate the bear spirit back into hibernation before it grows strong enough to threaten all of
Chicago.
Guest Cast: William Smith (Jim Elkhorn), Elaine Giftos (Nurse Janice Eisen), Robert
Cornwaithe (Dr. Hartfield), Robert Yuro (Captain Webster), John Alvin (Dr. Ralph
Carrie), Michael Fox (Frank Wesley), Tom Drake (Don Kibbey), Joyce Jillson (Diana
Lanier), Michael Strong (Walter Green), Bob Golden (Policeman), John Mitchum
(Janitor), Ella Edwards (Receptionist), Dianne Harper (Second Girl)
11-HORROR IN THE HEIGHTS
Written by Jimmy Sangster
Directed by Michael T. Caffey
In Chicago's Heights district, elderly Jewish citizens are found dead, stripped to the bone, apparently by rats. Kolchak pins the killings on a rakshasa, a Hindu demon that entrances its victims by taking the form of the person they trust most.
Guest Cast: Phil Silvers (Harry Starman), Ned Glass (Joe the apartment manager),
Benny Rubin (Julius "Buck" Fineman), Murray Matheson (Lane Merriott), Barry Gordon
(Barry the waiter), Abraham Sofaer (Elderly Rakshasa hunter), Jim Goodwin (Frank
Rivas), John Bleifer (Charlie) Herb Vigran (Sal Goldstein), Naomi Stevens (Miriam
Goldstein), Robert Karnes (Officer Thomas), Paul Sorensen (Officer Prodman), Eric
Server (Officer Boxman), Shelly Novack (York)
12-MR. R.I.N.G.
Written by L. Ford Neale, John Huff
Directed by Gene Levitt
Kolchak writes an obituary for a deceased scientist, but launches an investigation when no one can give him a straight answer when he asks how the scientist died. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure goes on a rampage throughout Chicago, stealing morticians' wax and
Halloween masks. Kolchak finds out that the scientist was working on Project R.I.N.G.
— the development of an artificially intelligent robot. R.I.N.G. killed its creator rather than be shut down, and now the government is hunting it. Kolchak must find the robot and reveal its story before the government scraps the project — and the remorseful robot itself.
Guest Cast: Craig R. Baxley (R.I.N.G.), Bert Freed (Captain Akins), Julie Adams
(Avery Walker), Henry Beckman (Senator Duncan "LaBeau" Stephens), Corinne
Michaels (Dr. Leslie Dwyer), Robert Easton (Bernard Carmichael), Myron Healey
(Colonel Wright), Maidie Norman (Librarian Miss Byrett), Bruce Powers (Peters), Don
"Red" Barry (Tyrell security guard) 13-THE PRIMAL SCREAM (a.k.a. THE HUMANOID)
Written by Bill S. Ballinger, David Chase
Directed by Robert Scheerer
Bizarre, primatelike creatures rampage throughout Chicago. Kolchak learns the creatures were spawned by accident in a government lab, from cell samples found preserved deep inside the Antarctic ice shelf. Now these bizarre missing links are wreaking havoc.
Despite the government cover-up, Kolchak tracks the creatures to their lair beneath an old nuclear research lab from the 1950s.
Guest Cast: John Marley (Captain Maurice Molnar), Jamie Farr (Jack Burton), Pat
Harrington Jr. (Thomas Kitzmiller), Katherine Woodville (Dr. Helen Lynch), Sandra
Gould (Landlady), C. Lindsay Workman (Dr. Fisk), Byron Morrow (Dr. Cowan), Regis
J. Cordic (Dr. Peel), Chuck Waters (William Pratt), Arnold Williams (Barney), Jeannie
Bell (Rosetta Mason Al Checco (Nils), Vince Howard (Policeman), Barbara Luddy
(Woman), Paul Picerni (Humane Society man), Barbara Rhoades (Kitzmiller's secretary)
14-THE TREVI COLLECTION
Written by Rudolph Borchert
Directed by Don Weis
Kolchak is walking down the street when he witnesses the murder of a fashion-industry spy, who is thrown to his death from an upper-floor window. Kolchak races up the building's only staircase and bursts into the locked room — to find it filled with nothing but mannequins. More murders of a supernatural nature soon follow. Kolchak links the killings to Madame Trevi, a leading designer in the fashion industry who he believes is using witchcraft to destroy her competitors. With the aid of a witches' coven, Kolchak destroys the source of Trevi's power — only to find out who the witch truly is. Armed with a mojo bag, Kolchak confronts the witch and risks publicly accusing her in order to strip her of her powers.
Guest Cast: Lara Parker (Madelaine), Nina Foch (Madame Trevi), Bernie Kopell
(Doctor), Marvin Miller (Lecturer), Priscilla Morril (Griselda), Douglas V. Fowley
(Superintendant), Peter Leeds (Photographer), Richard Bakalyan (First hood), Henry
Brandon (Man), Henry Slate (Second hood), Beverly Gill (Melody Sedgewick), Dennis
McCarthy (Figure), Diane Quick (Ariel)
15-CHOPPER
Story by Bob Gale & Robert Zemeckis Teleplay by Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale,
David Chase, Steve Fisher
Directed by Bruce Kessler
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow meets The Wild Ones as a headless, sword-wielding motorcyclist commits a rash of decapitation murders. Kolchak pieces together the mystery: The victims were all members of a motorcycle gang in the 1950s. One of their comrades, Harold "Swordsman" Baker, was accidentally decapitated as the result of a prank gone wrong. His headless body went on a killing spree in the '50s until his head and body were reunited.
Guest Cast: Larry Linville (Captain Jonas), Jim Backus (Herb Bresson), Fern Barry (Rita
Baker), Sharon Farrell (Lila Morton), Jay Robinson (Professor Eli Strig), Jesse White
(First Watchman), Arthur Metrano (Henry Barlow "Suds" Spake), Frank Aletter (Norman
Kahill), Steve Franken (Morgue Attendant), Joey Aresco (Electric Larry), Jimmy Murphy
(Beaner), Jack Bernhardt (Otto), Jim Malinda (Snow White), Brunetta Barnett (Nurse). 16-DEMON IN LACE
Story by Stephen Lord
Teleplay by Michael Kozoll, David Chase, Stephen Lord
Directed by Don Weis
On a college campus, young men begin dying of heart attacks. Kolchak connects all the dead young men to Professor Spate, an archeologist who is researching an ancient Middle
Eastern tablet. Kolchak soon learns that a similar string of unexplained deaths surrounded
Spate's expedition to recover the tablet. The tablet is revealed to be connected to a succubus, a female demon that seduces men, then reveals its true form to literally frighten them to death and devour their souls. Kolchak risks the demon's wrath and his own life to destroy the cursed tablet.
Guest Cast: Andrew Prine (Prof. C. Evan Spate), Jackie Vernon (Coach Toomey),
Carolyn Jones (Registrar), Keenan Wynn (Captain Joe "Mad Dog" Siska), Kristina
Holland (Rosalind Winters), Milton Parsons (Dr. Salem Mozart), Ben Masters (Mike
Thompson), Steve Stafford (Craig), Carman Zapata (Spanish woman), Maria Grimm
(Maria Vanegas), John Elerick (Mark Hansen), Davis Roberts (Coroner), Donald
Mantooth (Tim Brennan), Hunter Von Leer (Donald Rhiner), Margie Impert (Betty
Walker), Iris Edwards (Girl)
17-LEGACY OF TERROR
Written by Arthur Rowe
Directed by Don McDougall
Physically fit young men meet grisly deaths: their hearts are cut from their chests while they're still alive, with a dull blade. Each victim is killed on a flight of stairs, each one at a higher elevation than the last victim. Kolchak spots a strange feathered creature near the scene of one of the murders. He learns that an ancient Aztec cult is trying to resurrect its deity, Nanautzin, the Lord of the Smoking Mirror. Kolchak learns that Pepe, a young grocery clerk, is the cult's "perfect sacrifice," and the reporter must track the teenager to the highest staircase in Chicago and convince him to back out of the sacrifice.
Guest Cast: Erik Estrada (Pepe Torres), Ramon Bieri (Captain Webster), Sorrell Booke
(Mr. Eddy), Pippa Scott (Tillie Jones), Sondra Currie (Vicky), Carlos Romero (George
Andrews), Victor Campos (Professor Jamie Rodriquez), Udana Power (Captain Madge
Timmins), Cal Bartlett (Officer Lyons), Ernesto Macias (Andrew Gomez), Robert Casper
(Professor Jones), Nina Vasquez (Rita Torres), Dorrie Thomson (Lona), Merrie Lynn
Ross (Nina), Scott Douglas (Major Taylor), Mickey Gilbert (Nanautzin, the Mummy),
Craig R. Baxley (Rolf Anderson), Alma Beltran (Mrs. Torres), Scott Douglas (Major
Taylor), Pitt Herbert (Medical Examiner), Gene Le Bell (Officer Olson), Ron Stein
(Officer Smith)
18-THE KNIGHTLY MURDERS
Story by Paul Magistretti
Teleplay by David Chase, Michael Kozoll
Directed by Vincent McEveety
Chicago citizens are murdered with medieval weapons. Kolchak links all the victims to the conversion of a small museum into a disco. It turns out that the museum housed the armor of Guy de Metancourt, a misanthrope who swore upon his death that his final resting place should never know gaiety or laughter. Now his armor, animated with his vengeful spirit, is executing those who have desecrated his resting place. Kolchak's only chance to stop the unchivalrous ghost is to challenge it to single combat while wielding a holy axe blessed by the Pope.
Guest Cast: John Dehner (Captain Vernon Rausch), Hans Conried (Mendel Boggs),
Shug Fisher (Pop Stenvold), Robert Emhardt (Roger), Jeff Donnell (Maura), John Dehner
(Captain Vernon Rausch), Hans Conreid (Mendel Boggs), Lieux Dressler (Minervo
Musso), Shug Fisher (Pop Stenvold), Robert Emhardt (Coat-of-arms dealer), Lucille
Benson (Maura), Don Carter (Morgue assistant Lester Nash ), Bryan O'Byrne (Charles
Johnson the butler), Sidney Clute (Bruce Krause), Gregg Palmer (Sergeant Buxbaum), Ed
McCready (First reporter), Alyscia Maxwell (Freshman reporter), Jim Drum (Leo J.
Ramutka)
19-THE YOUTH KILLER
Written by Rudolph Borchert
Directed by Don McDougall
Young swinging patrons of an exclusive dating service turn up dead of old age. The police don't believe the decrepit victims and the missing young adults are the same persons, but Kolchak discovers that the boss of the dating service is actually the legendary Helen of Troy, who sacrifices perfect young victims to Hecate, her patron goddess, in exchange for eternal youth and beauty.
Guest Cast: Cathy Lee Crosby (Helen of Troy), Dwayne Hickman (Sergeant J. Orkin),
Demostenes a.k.a. George Savalas (Kaz Kazantarkis), Kathleen Freeman (Bella Sarkof),
John Felder (Gordon "the Ghoul" Spangler), Eddie Firestone (Conventioneer), Michael
Richardson (Lance Mervin), Penny Santon (Lance's Mother), James Ingersoll (First young man/William Cubby), Reb Brownas (Second young man), Joss White (Secretary)
20-THE SENTRY
Written by L. Ford Neale, John Huff
Directed by Seymour Robbie
The government tries to cover up a spate of violent deaths at the Merrymount Institute, an underground archival facility. Kolchak determines that the victims were ripped apart, as if attacked by a crocodile or other large lizard. He sneaks inside the facility and discovers that the slain workers had excavated a collection of large egglike objects, and that the eggs' mother, an enormous bipedal lizard, is attempting to retrieve them. Kolchak risks the mother-lizard's wrath and his life to return the eggs to the nest before they hatch.
Guest Cast: Frank Campanella (Ted Chapman), John Hoyt (Dr. Lamar Beckwith),
Kathie Browne [wife of Darren McGavin] (Lt. Irene Lamont), Tom Bosley (Jack
Flaherty), Albert Paulsen (Dr. James Verhyden), Frank Marth (Colonel Brody), Margaret
Avery (Ruth Van Galen), Cliff Norton (Arnie Wisemore), Lew Brown (First detective),
Keith Walker (First reporter), Bill Diez (Second reporter), Greg Finley (Dr. Phillips),
Tom Moses (Dr. Gordon)
Copyright 1987 by John L. Flynn, Ph.D.